“No group is more harmed by sharia than Muslim women — a reflection in part of the patriarchal tribal culture out of which Islamic law emerged.”

Admittedly, the writer is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a controversial figure in Islam.

However, she does have a point: men and women are treated differently in whatever version of sharia you want to name — and in every case, women are “less” than men.

It’ll be up to American Muslim women to press for reform in this medieval view of law.

Read the rest of her analysis here: “From Selma to Tunis”